FROM the earliest times mortal man has been seeking for an explanation of the mysteries which seem to surround him, for help for the difficulties of human experience, for a way to express the higher, the eternal aspirations which dwell in the human heart. Eternal Truth speaks to all men, and in the divine Mind all true thinking is included. This has been more or less clearly understood by all who have listened to the divine voice, which awakens men to a higher understanding of life and of its divine source.
Numberless religious and philosophic systems bear witness to this drawing nearer to Truth; the same seeking for light underlies them all, although the form in which their perception of Truth is clothed may vary. The highest revelation, as probably all will admit, is doubtless that one which gives the clearest idea of the great cause of all that exists, because this includes the understanding of and a certainty about the nature of its manifestations.
The history of humanity tells us how, whenever "the fulness of the time was come," men arose whose clearer consciousness of the eternal so enlightened their followers that they learned to contemplate existence from new standpoints. Nearly twenty centuries ago the world was privileged to behold the one whom John the Baptist called "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world," and who himself said, "I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." Jesus not only revealed the Father as Spirit, as omnipotent Love, Truth, and Life, but in words and in deeds he taught what man's oneness with God includes.
